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Can I automatically send RSS feed of Wordpress Podcast to iTunes using Powerpress?

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Yes, but "send" is not the correct term.

Here's a quick explanation of how podcasting works:

An XML page on your web site (e.g. example.com/feed/podcast/) maintains a list of your blog posts/podcast episodes. This unique URL is then used to submit to podcast directories including iTunes. iTunes and other directories will check this URL every so often (iTunes case it's every 4 hours) for updates and changes. If iTunes sees new content, it will make that new content appear on the iTunes podcast directory, typically within a few hours. This process is better described as "syndication".

WordPress provides RSS feeds for blogging automatically. What PowerPress does is give you a podcast only RSS feed, which is necessary to optimize the blog posts in the feed for only podcast consumption. In a perfect world you would use the blog feed (which mixes your blog posts and episodes) for your news subscribers, and use the podcast only feed for your podcast subscriptions.

Angelo Mandato
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